Discussions: A Guide to Navigating Healthcare Choices

PATSY BARNES has been a nurse for 40 years, 34 years in emergency medicine and 6 years in hospice. She is the former president of the statewide ethics organization, Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum and has taught ethics classes at the University of Colorado Healthcare Sciences and Naropa University in Boulder. In addition to her nursing degree, she has a BA in religious studies from Regis University and an advanced practice certifi cate in palliative medicine from Colorado University School of Nursing. She has participated in thousands of discussions on healthcare choices as a nurse ethicist and a medical navigator. With this book, she hopes to share her knowledge gathered from the past 40 years in patient care in an effort to educate people on healthcare choices, particularly in chronic illness and end of life. As the baby boomers age, they will be looking for a simple guide to those choices and this book is that guide.

PATSY BARNES has been a nurse for 40 years, 34 years in emergency medicine and 6 years in hospice. She is the former president of the statewide ethics organization, Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum and has taught ethics classes at the University of Colorado Healthcare Sciences and Naropa University in Boulder. In addition to her nursing degree, she has a BA in religious studies from Regis University and an advanced practice certifi cate in palliative medicine from Colorado University School of Nursing. She has participated in thousands of discussions on healthcare choices as a nurse ethicist and a medical navigator. With this book, she hopes to share her knowledge gathered from the past 40 years in patient care in an effort to educate people on healthcare choices, particularly in chronic illness and end of life. As the baby boomers age, they will be looking for a simple guide to those choices and this book is that guide.